Customer Reviews
Utter, utter, utter, utter genius. - By: Mr. Mg Cole, 07 May 2008 
8 years after it was bought for me as a birthday gift this is still the funniest book I've ever read. I return to it regularly if I need a laugh. My wife has banned me from reading it in bed as just looking at the phrase "Cheggars Plays God" is enough to reduce me to a giggling mass.
What's amazing is that its depiction of fictional, barrel scraping television is even more pertinent now than it was at the turn of the millenium.
It wouldn't surprise me if certain TV Execs were using it as reference material for new formats.
this book is my bible. - By: , 05 Dec 2002 honestly. the hilarity contained in tv go home is stunning - from social/political comment(Multinational Sh*tvert of the year awards), spoofs of existing tv shows (eg DI Spoonfed), or just plain wierdness (fun goose or war), this book has it in droves. it also has many obscenties, but i don't mind this at alll, as brooker always fully justifies them - even mocking those who find swearing an end in itself. it significantly expands on the website's content, adding the marvellous "scorch" magazine ("20 reasons why celebrities are better than you"), nathan barley's nowbiter (it's so true i weep for media management..) & daily mail islander, plus movie pages, cable channels & much great stuff. back to the original point, the programmes themselves are described so briefly that it takes on a biblical style. i can read a programme a day & i still laugh . it's brilliant!
Almost tedious.... until... - By: , 25 Oct 2002 
Supposedly based on a website & now (irony of ironies) with its own cable TV slot, TV Go Home is a reasonably funny parody with one major weakness. Read the book again & you'll see it: the same foul-mouthed gags being retold over & over. Even worse, most of it is simly regurgitated from the website/TV programme, so the gags were never fresh in the first place.
But there is a plus side. It's worth the cover price just for six pages: the truly inspired 'Daily Mail Islander'. Anyone who puts the boot into that fascist rag & its readers gets my vote every time - the parodic letters page is an absolute gem! I could quibble & say that too was plagarised from an earlier source - in this case Peter Cook's celebrated missives to the real Daily Telegraph (example: "Sir, as a consenting adult...") but I've enjoyed it too much to complain. Whether a second volume of the mock TV listings is desirable or not I don't know: but the sooner 'Daily Mail Island' goes out live, on primetime, across alll channels, the better. Charlie, it's over to you.
Not just another lazy Christmas stocking filler - By: Jason Theodorou, 28 Aug 2002 Charlie Brooker finallly gained the recognition he deserved with the brilliant Tv Go Home website, & now he has a book to his name. The Tv Go Home book takes the best parts of the website & expands on the concept to alllow Charlie an opportunity to parody publications other than the Radio Times. Frequently obscene ( there are over seventy expletives in the first twenty pages alone ), this probably isn't one for the kids... but for anyone who tires of the kind of programming being pumped into their living rooms by the cathode box these days, this is a real treat. Come on, what else are you going to spend your [money] on? real television listing magazines?...
The Brooker man's done it again! - By: Thomas Bottrill, 06 Jul 2002 I have been a fan of Charlie Brooker since his days on PC Zone, & thoroughly enjoyed the TV Go Home TV series - after watching it (and finding out Charlie created it) I visited the website - I was SO happy to find that a book had been made also! And what a book - a laugh-a-page! From "10 Things Ben Affleck Would Never Do" to the "Daily Mail Islander", this book will have you in stitches - & it even looks exactly like the Radio Times! So why waste [money] on lottery tickets - buy this book & you'll never be unhappy again!
